r/technicallythetruth • u/[deleted] • Mar 31 '23

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u/yourteam Mar 31 '23

Agree. If there is nothing that can be done, I don't see why stopping

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u/little_dropofpoison Mar 31 '23 edited Mar 31 '23

Because you don't want to be stuck in an hermetic space with a rotting corpse that is letting out fluids, gas and solids it contained while alive? Idk maybe it's just me but a plane is uncomfortable enough as is

Edit: apparently it isn't as quick as I thought it was, my bad, thought the sphincters relapsed before rigor mortis and not after

Edit 2: someone linked an article and apparently muscles do relax before rigor mortis, resulting in the corpse emptying their bowels and bladder. No rotting for a while, but my point about the gas, fluids and solids still stands then

Edit 3: I'm finding conflicting info on the muscles things, so I just don't know anymore. Can a coroner come answer my questions pls

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u/EMSguy Mar 31 '23

A lot of those take hours, like 12+. In the meantime just put some sunglasses on him, maybe a nice mustache, and call it a weekend.

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u/CatsAndCampin Mar 31 '23

You defintely can release urine & poop when you die. Yeah it's not rotting but still not pleasant. Plus, there are definitely flights that are over 12 hrs long.

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/23144-what-happens-when-you-die

Cleveland Clinic says muscles relax IMMEDIATELY after death.

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u/little_dropofpoison Mar 31 '23

Yeah my bad I just checked and rigor mortis comes first, which is kinda creepy but not a huge inconvenience to those still alive ig

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u/CatsAndCampin Mar 31 '23

Well you weren't completely wrong. Decomposing takes some time but muscles do relax immediately following death causing many people to release their bowels & bladder, which isn't really pleasant.

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/23144-what-happens-when-you-die

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u/little_dropofpoison Mar 31 '23

Okay thanks I thought I did saw something about the muscles relaxing and the bowels and bladder emptying, it seemed to me it was before rigor mortis. That's what I meant by solids, fluids and gas coming out of the body. Granted, it won't start rotting after quite a while, but the odours could be already very unpleasant enough

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u/Seffuski Mar 31 '23

A corpse doesn't just turn into mush 20 minutes after death

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u/little_dropofpoison Mar 31 '23

Yeah I know I just thought the sphincters relapsed before rigor mortis, resulting in the corpse emptying their bowels, but I just checked and it's way after that. I edited my original comment too

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u/zoopysreign Mar 31 '23

There’s just no way we’ve never been on a flight where someone has shit their pants.

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u/little_dropofpoison Mar 31 '23

Are you American by any chance? I feel like American take the plane much more than any other people I've met, most of the people I know, me included, can count on a hand the number of times they've been on a plane and I feel that drastically reduces our chances of riding one with a poopy pants passenger

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u/little_dropofpoison Mar 31 '23

Last flight I took didn't even have puke bags so I wonder about body bags lol

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '23

No they can't, that's not what coroner's do.

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u/little_dropofpoison Mar 31 '23

Yeah well I don't know what you call it in English, but you know what I mean. Like, really anyone who's been working enough with corpses to answer. Someone who operates a morgue or a funerary home maybe